The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-10-28


urday to John Zimmerman, of Ramse,
county, and Ernestina b. Vogel, ant
Elias Curtis, of Kossuth county, Iowa
and Mrs. Permatin l.. Mills, a widow liv
ing near Garden City. To-day one wal
granted to John Lorenz and Anna M
MahOwald.
Miner Porter, Esq, has leased the
Meagher room, formerly occupied by
the postofiice. and will open restaurant
therein about the 10th of November. II
is Il splendid location, and Mr.. Porter
ought 10 do well.
A twelve-year-old son of the late
Chas Loetfler, who was killed few days
ago by being run over by wagon, died
yesterday at his home in Eagle Lake OF
| typhoid fever. He caught cold while
attending his fathers funeral and It
turned into the fever of which he died.
The funeral will occur tomorrow.
Mr.. Henry Hillesheim planted a
| four acre tract IN the northeastern por-
ton of the city to potatoes last spring
and the yield was ! 900 bushels, which
he disposed of at prices ranging from %
TO 5S cents per bushel. This land was
swampy when he purchased it, but by
judicious use of drain tile he has made
it an excellent piece of garden land. At
this rate the land about pays for itself in
one year. Other large yields are also
reported. Blue Earth county cannot be
beaten when it comes down to the cap
acitv of the soil.
The question of constructing and
maintaining hospital i'll this city has
been agItated from time TO time for
number of years, but not until now has
the matter taken definite shape. The
proposition submitted to the Board OF
Trade should receive careful attention,
and if il should be found To be as favor
able as it appears at first glance the OPP
portunity should not be lost through
lack of liberality on the part of the city.
Mankato will soon require hospital
and if this plan fails 1t will be necessary
10 erect one at the cIty's cost and main
tain il at considerable expense. The
city's interest should lie properly pro-
tected before any grant is made and an
agreement in regard to the cost of caring
for the clty's sick should be arrived at.
This applies also TO the county.
Professor" Foster, the weather
prophet of Burlington, is ont with his
predictions for November, which are
about as near what that month generally
develOpes as any body with good
memory could have described. cat this
distance" says the Professor, "Novem-
Der looks like mad bovine. Heavy,
perhaps destructive storms near the 4th,
10th and 2lst, with several minor dis
turbances at other times within the
month. This month, as rule, has no
very bright reputation as to weather
making, and now seems clothed in It's
| best armor for an unusual "spell' OF
weather. 1t can do no harm to be pre-
pared, and we advise all to get Winters
wood and coal stored away before the
Sd of next month. If we should be mis-
taken about this matter, as we some
times are, no one will lose by having
taken our advice. The weather of that
month does not look pretty" from our
standpoint, and we feel "shaky' about
it. Between the 18th Of October and
November Sd we expect two or three
little storms with several days of good
weather. Make hay while the sun
shines"
From Tuesdays DAILY FREE PREss.l
"A deputy boiler inspector showed
UP at st. Peter recently. but was refused
permission to examine any boilers
though his credentials were properly
signed.
-Messrs. 6. +. Piper and +. c. War
ner are selling their Germania Park adj
dition very rapidly. To-day they re-
port the following sales: Eleven lots ii
block two; seven lots in block one, and
twelve lots in block twenty-five, to J. p
Menth for s. 200; lot five, block two, te
Frank Finch, for $50; lot two, block
forty-one, Warmers & Piper's sub-divis
ion, for 800, and lots one, two and three
block one, Germania Park addition, fol
$50. On the latter three lots no ies'
| than six houses will be erected at once
. This is good showing.
The Gospel Army has decided tc
leave the Opera House rink on account
: of its poor heating facilities and viii
5 probably move into the Dean buildin,
I on South Front street. They have By
e no means given up their contest will
Satan in Mankato.
i The gas company has placed
: Miner lamp on its post at Frink q Rich
e ards corner. If the city accepts tn
: style the old lamps will be replaced will
this make as rapidly as they break. |
| is in use in st. Paul, Minneapolis ant
q Chicago.
: The Fiber-ware works started NJ
f yesterday after its long shut down
: Very little of the old stock remains o.
:. hand. The very best kind of materia
! will be used in making the wares an,
Il their popularity in the future bids fai
to exceed even that of the past.
4 "A very graceful act has just bee
! performed by Mankato lodge, No. 10,
10. o. F., in presenting to Rev. +. J.
Patterson, now of Duluth, hand
d some gold-headed cane. The cane wa
h sent to Duluth to-day with the compl
,: ments of the lodge in recognition of tn
:. services of Rev. Patterson as chaplain {
= No. Is for q number of years.
g -Ciuzens of New Ulm and othe
points along the line of the Winona I
: st. Peter as far west as Marshall hav
d petitIoned the Northwestern Compan
J. to make train arrangements by whic
y trips can be made to st. Paul and retur
from those points without the loss of S
n much time. No favorable connection
are now made at Kasota.